[antir-heralds] Device check: Argent, a coney...

[Allison Roth]

Britt wrote:
> Internal detailing.  The rabbit kind of looks like it belongs on the
> mudflap of that Kenworth you get stuck behind on the way to Crown.  :)
> Put in an eye, a little line on the ear, hips...  That will take care
> of it.
I decided to keep it as simple as possible at first, and thought I could
add details in later.  (Kind of the opposite of acting - where you go as
big as possible on the theory you can always pull it back.)  I'm glad to
know I succeeded.  ;-)  Would this sort of detailing change the
blazoning at all?  i.e. would I have to point out that the coney is
order Or or any such thing?


> Between you and Dafydd you've got the blazon down. I'm going to use
> contourny in my version because the whole 'coney courant contourny' is
> <ahem> cool :
> Argent, a coney courant contourny and on a chief azure two crescents Or.
lol...it is cool.  The "to sinister", though, appealed to me as a subtle
in-joke-y nod to my nickname "Devil Bunny".  But maybe I'm just a dork.  <g>


> Good eye!  Laurel has returned a device that looked a lot like this in
> the past for having a fimbriated chief.  When you generate the line
> drawing for coloring, see how fine you can get those lines.  Ideally,
> they shouldn't be there at all, actually.
*nod*  I'll be careful, then - thanks for the warning.  This was really
meant to be a rough sketch - didn't want to put a lot of time in to it
until I knew a bit better what I was doing.

> I might be able to do that...
> (Grab your RfS and follow along - this is an easy one and good practice.)
I'll be saving this to go over in more detail.  Looks like a great
tutorial.  Thank you!

> Lianor, you ask all the right questions.  Can we keep you?  :)
Awww....thanks.  *blush*  I recently got suckered in (oops...I meant
humbly accepted) the role of Baronial Web Minister here in Montengarde,
so I'm unlikely to be going anywhere any time soon.  You may rue those
words.  <g>


> The style is excellent, those crescents are terrific.  The style of
> the rabbit did have me lloking up logos, but there's no problem there.
lol...I hadn't even thought of that.  I just wanted a more sleek rabbit
than the big, puffy tailed vision we have now, since in my place/period
(Castile, early 13th) rabbits were pretty much exclusively wild.  I
think monks in France were domesticating them by then (to eat their
unborn rabbity babies during lent, if what I read can be believed), but
that's about it.

> Nice device.
Thank you very much, both for your assistance and for your kind words.  :-)


YIS,
Lianor